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Democrats Are Already Bungling New Call For Laws To Protect Kids From Loot Boxes
10.8.2021
A group of Democrats have sent out letters to some of the biggest names in games publishing, asking them to voluntarily adopt rules soon to be implemented in the UK, designed, they say, to protect children from exploitative practices in video games. Except, that’s not what the UK code is about...
Congress’s Misstep on Crypto Reporting Shows the Dangerous Allure of Surveillance
9.8.2021
The visceral pushback to Sen. Rob Portman's reporting requirements isn't about avoiding taxes – it's about protecting digital liberties
Ciphertrace Announces Enhanced Monero Tracing Capabilities for Governments
6.8.2021
Crypto compliance firm Ciphertrace has announced enhanced tools for tracing Monero transactions. “Ciphertrace takes Monero tracing capabilities to the next level with the ability to follow the flow of funds backwards from the transaction of interest to its source,” the company claims....
Russia grants $200K to build tool for tracing crypto transactions
4.8.2021
A Russian company indirectly backed by Russia's largest bank will build a crypto tracking platform as part of a $200,000 procurement contract
US Infrastructure Bill Hurts Privacy, Innovation & Decentralization - EFF
3.8.2021
Source: Adobe/DEN_EFC
The US Senate draft of President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill "contains a poorly crafted provision that could create new surveillance requirements for many within the blockchain ecosystem" - potentially including developers and other entities who do not control...
Blockchain identity market to grow $3.58B by 2025, report claims
2.8.2021
A new forecast for the global blockchain identity management market expects growth at a compound annual growth rate of almost 71% during 2021-25
CBDCs ‘concocted in hell by Satan himself’ says ASI president Rich Checkan
28.7.2021
Rich Checkan described CBDCs as the spawn of Satan, and thinks that Bitcoin is still a speculative asset and not a currency alternative yet
Newly found Monero bug may impact transaction privacy, developers warn
27.7.2021
Monero developers are working on a software fix to a newly identified bug that may expose the occurrence of an output transaction made right away after receiving funds
memeunity & BRING.FINANCE Partner for Social Media Privacy
26.7.2021
Considered as a potential-driven decentralized cross-chain network facilitating easy staking of tokens, BRING.FINANCE (bRing) has announced its strategic partnership with memeunity, a friendly social media portal using decentralization as a privacy tool. With this integration, the bRing community...
Web Features That May Not Work As You’d Expect
23.7.2021
As the web gets more and more capable, developers are able to make richer online experiences. There are times, however, where some new web capabilities may not work as you would expect in the interest of usability, security and privacy.…
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Elrond Builds Alliance With HOPR for Privacy Compliance
23.7.2021
To enhance privacy protocols for influencers and artists, the NFT established blockchain network ‘Elrond’ has recently strengthened its capacities with HOPR. The alliance between the Binance-nurtured network HOPR and Elrond warrants a Layer-zero contract for the client’s privacy...
US Senators Seek to Forbid American Athletes From Receiving and Using Digital Yuan During Beijing Olympics
21.7.2021
Three U.S. senators have urged the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee to forbid American athletes from receiving or using digital yuan during the Beijing Olympics. Raising many concerns, including privacy, they warned, “Olympic athletes should be aware that the digital yuan...
HOPR Staking Lets You Earn Rewards and NFTs While Supporting Data Privacy
21.7.2021
The HOPR protocol provides network-level and metadata privacy for every kind of data exchange. Designed to be better than TOR, the mixnet protects the identity of both sender and recipient by routing data via multiple intermediate relay hops that mix traffic. Now the project launches staking with...
European Commission Targets Crypto Wallets And Citizens' Privacy
20.7.2021
The European Commission (EC) announced "an ambitious package" of legislative proposals that would decrease the privacy of the EU citizens if implemented.
"Today's measures greatly enhance the existing EU framework by taking into account new and emerging challenges linked...
Collective #670
15.7.2021
GradientArt * Glass UI * Building SDF fractal noise * Broken Filters * A privacy war is raging inside the W3C
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Bitcoin network node count sets new all-time high
15.7.2021
Bitcoin’s node count has achieved another all-time high milestone with almost half of the nodes running on Tor
Digital Euro Project Gets Going as ECB Launches Investigation Phase
15.7.2021
After months of deliberation, the European Central Bank has decided to proceed with a digital euro project. Officials insist the new version of Europe’s common currency should “ensure privacy” and provide access to “the safest form of money” at...
Whale From 2012 Transfers 740 Bitcoin Worth $26M After BTC Sat Idle for 9 Years
13.7.2021
On July 12, an old whale from 2012 spent 740 bitcoin worth roughly $26 million at the time of transfer after nine years of choosing not to move the coins. The whale acquired the bitcoin on May 31, 2012, when the stash of crypto was only worth $3,700. Old School Whale Moves 740 ‘Sleeping...
Panther Protocol and StackOS Partner to Bring Privacy to DeFi and NFTs
12.7.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Panther Protocol has joined forces with StackOS, a decentralized cloud protocol, to deliver privacy and data protection tools. As a meta-protocol focused on end-to-end privacy for any digital asset, Panther is of great interest to virtually all DeFi users looking to benefit from...
Privacy-preserving computation on blockchains could prevent breaches
10.7.2021
Business is a resource game, and blockchain offers a means to win it, enabling interoperability with privacy-preserving computation